[FFmpeg-devel] Allow output files as read-write

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:12:16PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:05:51AM +0000, Collins, Andrew wrote:
> > I completely agree with your thoughts on it being a bad idea to make a generalisation when opening the output for protocols where it is not possible to read-write and another approach may be to look at a change in file.c. However, this does also bring the question that even if file.c were modified for special behaviour FFMPEG is still asking at a logical level to always open the file for write (only), rather than requesting it be opened for read-write.
> 
> I don't know, but are you completely misunderstanding what "opening a
> file for writing only" means?
> It means that via that _specific_ handle the file can only be written.
> It does _not_ mean that this or another application can not also
> open the file for reading, writing or whatever.
> With so-called mandatory locking you can prevent others to access the
> file in certain ways, but in all implementations I know (including
> Windows) what you allow or forbid other applications to do with the
> file is completely unrelated to what access you request yourself.
> For Windows the default is to not allow any other access if the
> requested access includes writes, and otherwise to only not allow
> others to write.
> This means in the default behaviour it does not matter whether you
> open the file for write or for read and write access.
> Thus my suspicion that there is something seriously wrong on the
> environment (e.g. MinGW libc-related code).
> However I just remembered that we actually use a special ff_win32_open
> (in libavformat/os_support.c) on Windows, though I can't see anything
> wrong with it.
> At least it would be an obvious place to use _sopen instead though.

I sent a patch implementing that, but it is not tested in any way,
someone else will have to do that.